Page 232 of Assassin

“Promise?” she asked.

Jinx held out her pinkie.

“I promise.”

And for Alyona, a woman who had been taught to never trust, that meant the world to her.

Maybe, she’d be okay, after all.

Meanwhile, Rogue and Jax were tracking the security guards. Every time they turned off a camera, he had to make sure when it came back on, it was looped.

It was like undoing everything he’d already done to ensure the women were safe.

It took time.

When the two men came to a stop in the stairwell that led to the vault, they knew what was happening next. They were going down and would find the women looting the vault.

Shit.

It was time to move.

He motioned to Ajax.

Immediately, the man got it.

They needed a distraction.

Knocking on the wall with his fist, Rogue got their attention. When they came their way, trying to figure out what was going on, they’d both have to move fast before they called in for backup.

They didn’t need the cops there.

“Did you hear that?” the one security guy asked.

The other nodded.

“It sounded like someone was knocking on the door. Did we lock it?”

The other nodded.

“I think so. Let’s go see who it is,” the one said.

They got ten feet and into the doorway that led to the main area before they had a problem.

Jax and Rogue were on them, disarming the two security guys, and then had them on the ground, restrained with their own cuffs.

It went fast.

Before they could say anything, or look up at them, they knocked them both out.

Rogue knew what was next.

“We gotta get them to the vault, and get the women out of here. If they don’t check in every so many minutes while inside a building, they call in more security,” Rogue warned.

Ajax was curious.

“You spend a lot of time watching security guards, don’t you?”

He laughed.

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